Squadron: 1 AAS (RCAF)
Start Date: 1949-12-11
Completion Date: 1949-12-11
Mission: Meteorological
Operation: unspecified
Target City:
Target Specific:
Base: RCAF Station Trenton
Take Off Time:
Squadron Code:
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Canada
Crash Specifics: 7 miles south-east of RCAF Station Trenton
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: engine
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
1 Air Armament School, RCAF Station Trenton. Mitchell aircraft HD 341, returning from a routine meteorological flight, when the port engine caught fire. The flames spread to the fuselage, and the Mitchell exploded in mid-air; it crashed in a field 7 miles south-east of RCAF Station Trenton, killing the aircraft's crew of four. A local witness on the ground, stated that it appeared that the pilot deliberately avoided crashing into a populated area by veering the burning aircraft in another direction
[Royal air Force Serial and Image Database]...